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English is a compulsory subject in the general education curriculum from grades 3 to 12. As one of the instrumental subjects in school, English not only enables students to formulate and develop their communicative competences in English but also contributes to the formation and development of general competences to live and work more effectively, to learn other subjects well and for lifelong learning. English provides students with an important international communication tool, enabling them to exchange information, advanced scientific and technical knowledge, explore cultures, thereby leading to intercultural understanding and promoting a sense of global citizenship, contributing to the development of personal qualities and competences. Through learning English and understanding different cultures, students can better understand and love their own language and culture. As a compulsory subject in the general education curriculum, English is also directly inter-related with many other subjects/educational areas such as Literature/Vietnamese, Natural and Social Sciences, History and Geography, Arts, Physical Education, Computing, Experimental Activities. English is also a tool to teach and learn other subjects, especially Mathematics and natural sciences. The main objective of the General education English language curriculum is to enable students to formulate and develop their communicative competences through practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing and linguistic knowledge (pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar). Communicative competences and linguistic knowledge are built on the basis of specific units of communicative competences, in themes and topics relevant to the needs and abilities of students to help them meet the levels required in the Vietnam 6-level language proficiency framework (promulgated under the Circular No. 01/2014/TTBGDDT dated 24 January 2014 of the Minister of Education and Training), specifically, students who finish primary school will have mastered Level 1, students who finish lower secondary school will have mastered Level 2, and students who finish upper secondary school will have mastered Level 3. The content of the general education English language curriculum reflects the basic directions outlined in the general education curriculum of the Ministry of Education and Training, particularly:   4 At primary level (grades 3-5), English teaching and learning enables students to initially formulate and develop their communicative competences through the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with more focus on listening and speaking skills. At lower secondary level, English teaching and learning continues to enable students to formulate and develop their communicative competences, and at the same time develop their thinking abilities and enhance students' understanding of cultural and social characteristics of countries in the world as well as have more extensive understanding of the culture and society of their own nation. At upper secondary level, English teaching and learning enables students to develop their communicative competences in English built on the foundations of the primary curriculum and lower secondary curriculum, to provide them with lifelong skills for education and employment